Monthly Review, Volume 61, Issue 11 (2010-04). pp. 3-0_2,0_3,64.
Language:
English
Abstract:
Sweezy was known to a generation of musicians for her role as president of the board of directors of the Club 47 in Harvard Square, a key venue in the folk music revival of the 1960s and early '70s, that hosted talents as varied as Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Bob Dylan, Bill Monroe, Libba Cotten, Tom Ashley, and John Hurt, among others. [...] acknowledged during the National Heritage Fellowship presentation were Sweezy's work with Ralph Rinzler, Director of the Smithsonian Institution's annual Folklife Festival on the Mall in Washington, D.C; her seminal, Raised in Clay for the Smithsonian Press on the Southern pottery tradition; her founding of the Refugee Arts Group, which collaborated with the Cambodian, Hmong, and other Southeast Asian communities in the preservation of their traditional crafts and performing arts; and her co-curating in 2005 (with potter Mark Hewitt) of the North Carolina Museum of Art's highly praised exhibition, The Potter's Eye: